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The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was broadcast on 26 March 1923. In 1936, the BBC experimented with the world's first televised weather maps , brought into practice in 1949 after World War II .
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Nairobi ( / naɪˈroʊbi / ny-ROH-bee) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nairobi, which translates to 'place of cool waters', a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper had a population of 4,397,073 in the 2019 census.
Barbara Edwards (born 1939) [1] is an English meteorologist who became the BBC 's first female television weather presenter in January 1974. [2] She joined the Met Office in 1957 [3] where she edited and published meteorological publications, until 1962. She worked as a weather forecaster at Gatwick Airport and Heathrow Airport from 1963 to ...
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Having worked as a Met Office meteorologist since 1998, Matt joined the BBC Weather team [1] in 2004, originally working at the Cardiff weather centre. He now broadcasts across a range of BBC outlets, including BBC One, BBC News, BBC World News, Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio 4 and 5 Live. He is a regular weather forecaster on BBC Breakfast, [2] [3 ...
Over the past three decades ECMWF's wide-ranging programme of research has played a major role in developing such assimilation and modelling systems. This improves the accuracy and reliability of weather forecasting by about a day per decade, so that a seven-day forecast now (2015) is as accurate as a three-day forecast was four decades ago (1975).